I can’t believe I missed this picture of Danny Boyle with the model of the Olympics’ opening ceremony. Tinky Winky, Dipsy, La La, Coe.

Good news. UEFA has finally decided to stop dragging its feet on racist abuse from the terraces. Yes, initially there were mutterings about how it was hard to tell whether a player was being racially abused: a banana thrown at a player could actually be to encourage him to take on extra potassium to help with those runs down the wing; what sounded like monkey chants could be gasps of admiration: “Oooh! Oooh! Boooohtiful run! Ooooh!!”. (more…)